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Was there an all-civilian space flight before Inspiration4?
Privately-funded human orbital flight in singular spacecraft, no.
Civilian, yes.
According to Harvard University's Jonathan McDowell, there have previously been 15 all-civilian orbital flights, ...
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Was there an all-civilian space flight before Inspiration4?
The first space flight with an all-civilian crew was, depending on your definitions, either Joseph Walker's X-15 flight 77 (January 17, 1963), in which he exceeded the DOD's 50-mile (80 km) boundary, ...
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Was there an all-civilian space flight before Inspiration4?
It depends, and it depends on what you mean by "civilian" and "space".
Recently, Blue Origin made it above the Karman Line with an all-civilian crew, so there's a good argument to ...
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